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Normally, when writing a book review, I’d start off by saying something good about it, stick all the Debby Downer stuff in the middle, and then finish it off with another round of positivity. But now, thanks to Twilight, this pleasant writing routine I had allowed myself to fall into must be set aside. There is absolutely nothing good I can possibly say about this book. Nothing. So, I guess I get to skip to the moaning, ranting, and griping…

So, story plot in a nutshell: Some average girl goes to a new school, meets a hot guy, who turns out to be (gasp!) a vampire. She falls hopelessly in love with Hot Vampire Guy, and, oddly enough, he falls hopelessly in love with her. But there’s a ‘bad vampire’ after Average Girl (apparently Hot Vampire Guy is classified as a ‘good vampire’) who wants to eat her (this guy is my favorite character). So, Hot Vampire Guy must risk all to save her. Complications inevitably ensue. Hot Vampire Guy wins, and he and Average Girl ride off into the sunset together. The end. On with the criticism…

Let’s start with the protagonist: Bella. Bella is clumsy, bad at sports, and is constantly in danger of bodily harm. She is the quintessential damsel-in-perpetual-distress. Her awkwardness makes her easy to relate to, but other than that, Bella is practically nonexistent. She’s really just a prop–a flowerpot, or a decorative garden gnome– dumped in the middle of the story by the author just so Edward has something to obsess over. She has almost no personality–she’s as boring as a pet rock. Edward’s pet rock, to be precise. The only persona we can really assign to her is that of a whiney, snivelling, brat-faced little kid. She spends the entire novel moaning about how bad she is at sports, obsessing over how gorgeous Edward is, and generally wallowing in her own teenage angst.

Now for Edward… Let’s face it, girls, we are NEVER going to find an Edward Cullen. Anywhere. He’s perfect. He even sparkles. Seriously. In bright sunlight, ou
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I enjoy well-written fantasy books, like the Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire series, books 1-7 (let’s forget books 8 -9 happened) and Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson series. Those books feature female protagonists who have dimension, character, quirkiness, and occasional flaws. The characters are well-fleshed out and have internal conflicts, as any real person would. They aren’t perfect and they don’t live with perfect people.

Bella Swan, the main character in the Twilight, is a one-dimensional, whiny, sullen, bratty teenager. Her only flaw seems to be that she doesn’t fit in the town and that maybe she’s just too darn pensive and too darn pretty. She’s just too darn perfect. (I’m being facetious….) I won’t divulge much of the plot (little as there is) but during much of this book, Bella is either feeling like she’s too good for Forks (the small town she’s relocated to) or she’s fawning over Edward, the “mysterious” Cullen boy.

The author fails to inject any sense of character into her characters. They come across as flat, predictable and formulaic. Every vampire character is described as beautiful, attractive, alluring, etc. The school kids are stereotypical school kids. No one seems to have any real flaws, physical or otherwise. The “good” vampires are even – gasp – pseudo-VEGETARIANS…! (They feed on animals, but not people.) And of course, everyone knows the joke about the sparkling. If you don’t, I won’t spoil it for you but you can Google or Yahoo it, if you really want to know.

The writing was painful to read. The style read like a teenager’s diary, ironically, it would have made more sense had it been written in that way, ala Bridget Jone’s Diary. I would have more easily forgiven the endless ogling that Bella subjects Edward to. The author tries to write him in a sympathetic Byronesque fashion, but he’s simply bad tempered and chauvinistic. He’s not a tragic hero, Edward is just tragically boring. The supporting characters
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